Next Steps
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-Some good commands to explore next:
+This tutorial should be enough to perform basic distributed revision
+control for your projects. However, to fully understand the depth
+and power of git you need to understand two simple ideas on which it
+is based:
+
+ * The object database is the rather elegant system used to
+ store the history of your project--files, directories, and
+ commits.
+
+ * The index file is a cache of the state of a directory tree,
+ used to create commits, check out working directories, and
+ hold the various trees involved in a merge.
+
+link:tutorial-2.html[Part two of this tutorial] explains the object
+database, the index file, and a few other odds and ends that you'll
+need to make the most of git.
+
+If you don't want to consider with that right away, a few other
+digressions that may be interesting at this point are:
* gitlink:git-format-patch[1], gitlink:git-am[1]: These convert
series of git commits into emailed patches, and vice versa,
smart enough to perform a close-to-optimal search even in the
case of complex non-linear history with lots of merged branches.
-Other good starting points include link:everyday.html[Everday GIT
-with 20 Commands Or So] and link:cvs-migration.html[git for CVS
-users]. Also, link:core-tutorial.html[A short git tutorial] gives an
-introduction to lower-level git commands for advanced users and
-developers.
+ * link:everyday.html[Everday GIT with 20 Commands Or So]
+
+ * link:cvs-migration.html[git for CVS users].